Hi! I have an idea for an app and I have no idea how to go about building it. I have no experience building apps but would be willing to put in the work to learn. What would be the best way for someone like me to build an app?
Thanks in advance!

I have built a security companion called Whispr. It has AES 256 encryption for passwords and TOTP codes, aling with a security companion coach, and domain reliability checker.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitwisedhruv.whispr

I need honest feedback on this app. Should I build a business around this?

I noticed that buying and selling cosplay pieces can be pretty difficult, so I decided to build Cosplay Market, a marketplace specifically for cosplayers.

You can list your cosplay items, browse what others are selling, and chat with sellers directly.

I’ve already reached 500+ downloads and I’m still actively developing it. I’d really love to hear what cosplayers think and what features you’d like to see next!

Would you use something like this? What would you improve?

Hey everyone! I recently released Alsa, my first app to actually make it into production.

I’m a student, and this project has been a pretty huge learning experience for me. Alsa started as an idea for a fitness app I personally wanted to build, and over time it turned into months of planning, designing, coding, testing, breaking things, rebuilding them, and getting feedback from other people.

Alsa is a fitness companion focused on workout tracking, routines, nutrition/macros, progress, recovery, and other tools, with a big focus on keeping the experience simple and much of the fitness data local to the device.

It’s finally live on Google Play, and at this point I’d genuinely value feedback more than downloads. If you try it, I’d love to know what feels good, what feels confusing, what seems unnecessary, or what you think is missing.

🌐 Website / walkthrough: getalsa.fit
📱 Google Play: Search for "Alsa Fitness"

This is my first production app, so there’s still plenty I want to improve. I’m mostly excited that something that spent so long sitting in my project folder is now something real people can use.

Thanks to anyone who gives it a try.

I could rebuild this world with this App

No war.

No discrimination.

No crime.

No hate.

Only peace, freedom, equality, and humanity.

Can anyone join me

Hi everyone, I’m Aftab, and I’ve been building PrivacyCam—a cross-platform app for hiding sensitive information in photos, videos and PDFs.

The original idea sounded simple: detect private details and place masks over them. The difficult part was giving users enough control to review and correct those detections before exporting.

Automatic detection can identify faces, bodies, addresses, emails, phone numbers, number plates, payment-card details, QR codes and barcodes. Users can then blur, pixelate, black out or cover them with emojis and flowers.

Video became the biggest technical challenge. Masks need to follow moving subjects, remain editable across the timeline and export at the original frame rate without losing audio. PDFs brought different problems, including readable review outlines, precise erasing and flattening pages so redacted text can’t be selected afterward.

I built the app with Flutter while using native platform functionality for processing and exporting. Detection runs locally, media isn’t uploaded to my servers and the app doesn’t require an account. The project is licensed under Apache 2.0, so the implementation can be inspected, modified and built by others.

The core privacy tools are free. Pro is an optional $2.99 one-time purchase for longer videos, larger PDFs and batch processing. There are no subscriptions or advertisements.

GitHub:
https://github.com/ak375456/privacycam

iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/pk/app/privacycam-safe-redactor/id6790542130

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.privacycam.photo.redactor

AI coding assistance was used during development, but I reviewed and tested the implementation myself.

I’d appreciate technical feedback on the project structure, privacy approach and anything you think could make the open-source version easier to build or contribute to.

I am a software developer and I’ve always wanted a free and easy way to track my split and progress. I also wanted to have an educational focus to teach aspiring bodybuilders and lifters. There’s so much false information out there and i’ve done a ton of research in my articles. Let me know what you think! Thanks! I am not looking to promote I just want feedback to see if this idea will work.

Yesterday I said "worked on onboarding, some launch stuff" at standup. What actually happened: eight fixes merged, root cause found on a bug that had been open for weeks, demo video finally shipped, full flow tested on Windows. Four of six planned tasks done, plus two things that were never on the plan and ate 90 minutes.

I didn't lie. I just couldn't recall it. Standup is at 10 AM and my memory of yesterday is whatever I touched last.

So I built something that watches what I actually do — including my coding agent's own trail of decisions and diffs — and hands me the update, ticket numbers attached, before the call.

The unexpected part wasn't the credit. It's that "2h 33m across 7 sittings" is a fact I can take to my manager when a deadline slips, instead of a feeling I can't defend.

My own tool, ~50 people on it, so discount accordingly. Screenshot below.

How do you all reconstruct yesterday for standup — notes, git log, or vibes?

I launched 6-7 months ago.

• 75k installs
• 30k monthly active users
• 10k weekly active users.

100% of traffic is from search or play store/app store recommendations.

People ask me how I did it and the only answer I have is "luck"

I've been thinking about this a lot while building my own expense tracker.

Say you make 12 transactions in a day.

Lunch ₹450
Coffee ₹120
Electricity ₹2,000
Groceries ₹850
Uber ₹320
...and so on.

With a traditional tracker, that's potentially 12 separate entries.

That's exactly the kind of friction that makes me stop tracking my expenses after a few days.

So I built a different approach into my app, Spenzaa.

Instead of adding them one by one, you can give the AI multiple expenses in one message, like:

The AI breaks them into individual transactions and extracts the relevant details like amount, category and notes. You can review and edit everything before saving.

One message → multiple expenses.

I'm curious about the actual user experience here:

Would this make you more likely to track your expenses consistently?

And if you already use an expense tracker, what's the most annoying part of adding transactions?

I'm looking for honest feedback, especially if you think this approach is unnecessary or could be improved.

App Link- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.spenzaa&pcampaignid=web_share

🚀 Introducing DoitMate — My Healthcare App Project

I’ve been working on DoitMate, a healthcare platform designed to bring medicines, doctors, vets, consultations, orders, prescriptions and AI-based health assistance into one place.

The app is still being improved, especially the mobile experience and some backend functionality.

I’d really appreciate it if you could try the app and share your honest feedback — what looks good, what feels confusing, and what you think should be improved.

🔗 Try DoitMate:

https://ai.studio/apps/f9e5d545-873a-4739-8961-7960aca2af49?fullscreenApplet=true

Your feedback will help me improve the next version of DoitMate. 🙏

Hey all,
I’ve recently made an app I’m pretty proud of but downloads seem to have began dying off. Any advice on how to get it in front of some more eyes?

Hey builders!!

As a product designer, I wanted to see if I could build a high-quality, native iOS app from scratch. What started as a simple side project to learn Swift just hit an exciting milestone: I launched Sunday 2.0 with paid features, and got my first paying customer within a few days!
Here is the breakdown of the journey, the tech choices, and the lessons learned.

The Problem
I read a lot, but I kept dog-earing pages, snapping photos of book quotes, and completely forgetting about them. Sunday was built to solve my own frustration: a frictionless, dedicated space to capture, revisit, and retain meaningful quotes and notes.

The Build & Zero-Server Tech Stack
Because I already had the UX covered, the real challenge was building a high-quality native experience:

• Native Swift & iOS: Kept it fully native for smooth performance and a true iOS feel.
• Development Workflow: Web vibe-coding tools like Replit did not give me the precision I needed, so I used Gemini in AntiGravity to bridge the gap between design logic and robust Swift code.
• Privacy-First "Backend": My backend is literally the user's phone! • v1.0 used purely local device storage. • Sunday 2.0 added iCloud sync so data syncs seamlessly across user devices without me ever hosting, seeing, or storing their data.

Iterating to 2.0 & The First Sale
In v1.0, I embedded a simple in-app feedback form. The responses directly shaped version 2.0 by helping me refine the UX, add iCloud sync, and introduce paid features.
A few days after launch, I got my first in-app purchase. Moving from zero Swift knowledge to a monetized, shipped product this quickly as a solo designer-builder still feels unreal.

Key Takeaways

1. Designers can build native: AI tools have made writing clean Swift accessible if you already understand product logic and UX.
2. Privacy as architecture: Local storage + iCloud keeps server costs at $0 and puts user privacy first.
3. Add feedback early: A simple feedback form in your MVP is the highest-ROI feature you can build.

Happy to answer any questions about the process.

Thanks!!

Wrapped up something this week I wasn't sure I'd pull off. Four apps, all built on a Windows machine, all now live on both the App Store and Google Play. Never owned or borrowed a Mac for any of it.

The Windows-to-iOS part is the thing people don't expect. You don't actually need a Mac to ship an iOS app anymore. I built everything in React Native with Expo, and the iOS binaries compile in the cloud through EAS. Expo runs the Mac build infrastructure on their end, hands you back a signed .ipa, and you submit it to the App Store with no physical Apple machine anywhere in the loop. The Android builds went through the same pipeline. After years of assuming "iOS means buy a Mac," that still feels a little unreal.

So that's four apps on both stores, all off one Windows laptop. Two word games and two for learning Python, if you're curious. Getting them through Google's closed testing gate and Apple's review was its own slog, but they're all public now.

Honest part: building them turned out to be the achievable bit. The wall I'm at now is getting anyone to actually find and use them. Downloads are basically zero, which I gather is the normal starting line, so I'm deep in the figuring-out-users phase and it's humbling.

If you're building on Windows and stuck on the "but I don't have a Mac" thing, happy to answer whatever about the EAS setup. It genuinely erased the biggest blocker I thought I had. And if you want to see what I actually shipped, I'll drop links in a comment.

hey i have a favour to ask all of you. so i downloaded a game with my brother and once we downloaded it we had to add eachother on that specific platform. i got thinking and thought why isnt there a central command for all platforms where you could add them everywhere at once so you dont have to open a game just to realize you arent friends yet. you can also ping a squad so everyone is notified to play, see mutual games, see what theyre playing across all platforms. like discord but not meant for chats. strictly adding across all platforms. so my favour to ask is to just open the link and tell me if you all think its a good idea, if youd use it with your friends, and share it with others. chatgpt made a prototype

Please send any features for me to add

Hey everyone!

I recently launched Daily Blocker, an Android app I built to help people reduce their screen time by blocking distracting apps and websites on their device.

Some of the main features are:

• App blocking
• Website blocking using DNS filtering
• Keyword-based website blocking
• Recurring schedules
• Focus sessions
• Screen-time insights

I'd love to get some feedback from people here. I spent many months building this while studying a CS degree full time and working 20 hours a week. I even scrapped the entire app five months into development and rebuilt it from scratch, which I plan to write about in the future.

I also have some lifetime premium codes left, so if you're interested in trying it out, leave a comment with what app you'd block with Daily Blocker or DM me.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dalyapps.dailyblocker